86--EIGHTY-SIX (light novel)
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| Nothing much to say. Basically an episode focused on the Spearhead group experiencing "freedom" after leaving San Magnolia's territories. Not gonna lie, it felt slightly boring and kinda shallow but guess it couldn't be helped since, based on other people's comments, it was 95% anime-original content. Sequence with Fido's recordings was a nice addition tho. |
| That last montage has me all kinds of fucked up. I didn't know how these last two episodes were gonna go but that was fantastic |
| Nooooooooooo not my telephone service provider! Tbh kind of had a feeling Fido was going to get destroyed but still very sad. |
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| Squad finally able to catch some breather and get small taste of freedom but knew they were never safe. Endured this far only for their hopeless future. Cliffhangers, I'm ready. |
| S2 here we go!..oh there's 1 more ep left...how lame am i... |
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| Holy sheet htf I missed that scene?! At what duration was that? |
kljy said: Piromysl said: Probably Shin's pet dog. You don't noticed there's a hole on the skull on an animal in zoo? Legion used animal brain for support non-combat robot.Turns out Fido was human once like those Legion drones. Maybe. Definitely has shown higher intelligence than that of a dog. |
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theGodde said: kuu0haku said: with the question of why other scavengers don't gain sentience, the fact is we have never seen any other scavengers up close, so we have no idea either way. It's ambiguous, like how with star wars artoo is most certainly sentient. But at the same time, quite often you will see other droids that show little flickers of sentience. You don't need to know for sure whether the other droids are sentientI guess in the version you suggested, the question remains of why the other scavengers didn't gain sentience over the course of all those 9 years, if your explanation is because Fido was near Shin, the question again arises as to why didn't the other scavengers near him gain that sentience. Well, if we take that Fido was present in Shin's childhood, the question again comes that how could it have become a scavenger in the first case, then after meeting Shin, it followed him and completed his orders because it was capable of doing that. Both have their questions that couldn't be answered right away imo. For me it's more of a pick which version you want, and the anime picked the latter one. the reason why I prefer the version I described is because it gets rid of that coincidence storytelling. It's just bad storytelling to have him meet a robot that he has a past history with even though there are probably hundreds of different scavenger mechs out there. also by making him be created by the top science guy it kind of reduces how unique Fido is. He was just built different to the other ones. Whereas if his sentience is some kind of glitch or quirk in his system, it makes him unique and special in a completely organic way. It also kind of says something about the republic tech, how he can deviate from his programming so much. It's just charming world building, as opposed to coincidence storytelling where everyone knew everyone from the past and everyone is special in some way. But in the end this is probably just reading too much into the episode. I'm guessing the director just put that in because he wanted to tie Anette into the characters and story more. I didn't even notice it. I saw it pointed out and had to go back and revisit the episode I don't think it's unreasonable to think that Anette's father made the first "Fido" just like he made the first mental link headset using Shin and his brother's special ability. It might have also been a little too life like which was later eliminated in future units and explains why other Scavenges don't appear to be sentient. Fido appears to be a bit smaller in the screenshot with Shin as a child so I'm guessing this might just be memories from within a network of Fidos, assuming they are all connected. A much larger Fido, the one that we know now, probably was apart of Shin's brother's unit originally. Shin collecting the badges from his Brother's old unit caused him to stumble across this Fido. I think it dying at the end of this episode just caused it to recount everything it's recorded and gone through up to this point as well as linked memories of Shin from within the network from the first Fido. I think it's also just as likely that the Fido that died was the original one made by Anette's father as a prototype that had more personality than future versions. I think it was given to Shin's family as a way to try and help them. Again, it probably was apart of Shin's parent's unit but when they died it moved on to Shin's brother's unit and when he died it moved on to Shin's. |
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| What a calming episode, of course except for the last part. It feels so heart-rending to see the drastic changes of the group as Fido reminisce its time with the whole Spearhead squadron. |
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| The spearhead squadron having their "freedom" on enemy territory. Pretty relaxing episode. The entire post credit scene with Fido's POV was hard to watch. |
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| This episode felt like an epilogue chapter. That Fido POV segment hit hard. Next episode is the last. I wonder how this cour will end? |
| They were happy and peaceful in this episode but there is only one episode left and as we saw at the after ending part, they can't be happy. I guess something sad will happen in the next episode. Also Shin is still hearing Legion's voices. I don't know how he will live like this. Lastly, Fido's point of view was really emotional. |
| At last, they've got a little freedom on their journey through the Legion, or ex-empire territory. Its about time they did some world-building moment out of their daily battle routines, and well, its not dissapointing me with a whole new interaction and feeling relieved by those five. Good kind of break, with a lot of new information, especially the new objective for those five. Surviving country, eh? Interesting. By having such a limited source for their juggernaut, its absolutely a good new objective. Well, a little break moments were not that bad. Because, y'know, the next and final episode for this first cour kinda back to the fire action again. I mean, that doggo robot had its own pov. Then, holy shit! No, Fido, why its you whose dying after getting such a warm flash development. Dammit. I can't help, but place some of these little ss... Nice break for you, imouto-chan.  |
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| Can someone explain to me why Fido got destroyed? Did I miss something? This episode was kinda sad and I didn't expect the aftermath of the last battle from the surviving members from Eighty-Six point of view. I think we're going to see the Republic's side in the final episode or I could be wrong. |
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| bo bo bo bo bo bo boring. this anime is so overrated |
| after a very interesting episode, come the slow and snoozefest episode. altho i understand the point of this episode. also worth noticing is Shin behaviour. he really become direction-less person, with nothing that motivate him anymore. his goals already realized. thats why Raiden become uneasy. its like seeing someone losing the will to live, and might attempt suicide theGodde said: I feel like the director doesn't really understand action, but is really good at conveying mood and tone with cinematography and lighting. Maybe they have a separate director for action? Who knows. almost every episode has different "episode director". so yeah, theres a big overall director, and theres someone directing different episode. you can check ANN for detailed credits of staff. every anime are like that, especially action anime with drama. |
LevammeJun 13, 2021 4:35 AM
theGodde said: yes this is true, however the director is the one who lays out the plan (script and maybe a basic storyboard) for the episode director, which may or may not include the fights. I'm assuming it did not in this case im also dunno how true is that or how involved the director with each scenes. but some people whos familiar with those names (all the episode directors, not just the overall director) said director A or B strength in directing really shows (and consistent to their previous works). basically, some people already had their style, and you can see it more of the episode director doing than the director. because some episode director also the one credited as the one doing the storyboard (in that episode). in short, the answer to the original question: thats because the one directing the "action-packed" episode and "drama-heavy" episode are different people, so different result |
| Hum, so the second half of this episode was literally Fido's life flashing before its death... pretty sad but I expected this episode to only feature calm before tempest. I don't really know how this will end, considering they're going to face another threat most likely, but within a single & last episode |
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| One of the best episodes for sure, it was so well directed Poor Fido… |
| Fucking amazing episode, the people behind the show are really outdoing themselves. It's anime original but it was such a good addition. It's nice to see the remains of the spearhead squadron being "free". That Fido montage was amazing bro, the directing is just absolutely phenomenal, plus the full version of hands up to the sky was playing in the background *chef's kiss*. Kurena was so adorable, you really gotta wonder how she's still so childish and immature after everything they've been through. That one clip of Haruto though damn, that hit hard. There's that one quick clip though with young Shin and Annette, that means Fido has been with Shin for a long time, I wonder if Shin knew. Anyway, RIP Fido damn, best boy. I am really looking forward to the last episode of the first cour. I cannot wait for the second cour man. |
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